VenturousArtist Stay Alive has innovative concepts but the inability to commit catering to its presumed demographic by not sustaining coherency or scares and being outright misleading. It follows a group of flawed companions not sharing enough chemistry while being haunted by an unknown entity. Audiences are expected to serve them sympathy but only few are given enough time to be properly introduced or evolve.The film primarily focuses having elongated eerie scenery, unsympathetic drama, missing and confusing elements, and outright senseless censorship. It's an unsettling original horror film that's terribly disjointed with a horrific identity crisis and doesn't properly execute its ideas. Some characters foolishly endanger themselves, scenes pilled with nonsense becomes repetitive and exhausting to watch, and its main narrative fails to convincing.It's an unfinished and shallow game for shallow impressionable gamers.

SnoopyStyle Loomis Crowley beta-test video game Stay Alive with his friends Sarah and Rex. All three are killed with Loomis dying exactly the way he died in the game. Loomis' sister gives the game to his friend Hutch (Jon Foster). Hutch, his work friend Miller Banks (Adam Goldberg), brother and sister friends Phineus (Jimmi Simpson) and October (Sophia Bush), geeky Swink (Frankie Muniz) and Sarah's friend Abigail (Samaire Armstrong) play the game together. Miller is killed by the Countess Elizabeth Bathory in the game and she comes to kill him in real life. Police detectives Thibodeaux (Wendell Pierce) and King investigate. Phineus continues to play the game but leaves before getting killed. However the game plays by itself. He is killed in a freak accident like in the game. The remaining group tracks down the origins of the video game. Bathory had drained the blood of young women to bath in to maintain her youth. She was walled up alive in a tower on her plantation. Detective King plays the game and is killed. The cops are after the group and they all go on the run to battle Bathory.This reminds me of 'The Ring' plus the orderly killing sequence of 'Final Destination'. I like the idea of a real haunted horror video game. I like most of the actors in this movie. I want to like this movie more and I wish it was executed better. First of all, the kills are not bloody enough. The violence should be more gory and bloodier. Too much of it occurs off screen. The backstory is way too complicated. The movie tries to explain too much. It's better to leave it as something creepy killing them. I had a similar problem with 'The Ring' but this movie is much more severe. This movie starts with an interesting idea but the poor execution leaves a lot to be desired.

fedor8 "October!... October, where are you?!" - shouts one of the daft teens. You really need to be a rather confused film-script scribbler in order to name a female "October" and then actually have someone shout her name several times, over and over. This is the kind of Z-grade quality we're dealing with here.Whenever you think you'd just seen a horror flick with characters so idiotic and annoying they can't possibly get any worse, they come and surprise you by lowering the standards even further. Yes, there is the obligatory comic-relief moron (with a lack of manners so exaggerated that he instantly gains zero credibility as an actual living, physical, human individual) who gets killed early on (though not early enough by far), only this time the guy is so excruciatingly unfunny that you can only assume that the writer is someone's son, some useless nepotistic offspring without a smidgen of writing ability.In fact, the script is so moronic that we have two situations in which characters contradict themselves without any explanation being given. In one scene, the main character brings the idea to the others that the computer game might be responsible for the killings, and then – just a minute later – when one of the others agrees with him, he suddenly behaves like the skeptic and tells him not to be ridiculous! Amazing stuff. And the same thing happens AGAIN, a little later, only this time it's the nerd who contradicts himself.SA has no tension, no sense of dread. It is a forgettably bland horror film with lazy editing, average actors (I'm being generous here), and characters so cardboard-like they should be sent to a post office where they can be neatly folded into packages.A truly moronic scene is when just minutes after the brunette was brutally murdered, the blond girl has nothing better to do than go into a totally pointless and schmaltzy bit about how she has no home and lives in the van they're driving. South American mushrooms should not be touched ever, especially during the writing process. Avoid this dull turkey.

phoebos_world I vote Stay Alive a 1, because of the fact that it completely and utterly terrified me, for months after I'd watched the film. If I was voting on it being scary or not, I'd give it a 10. I know a lot of other people have said it's not scary at all, and it's really really awful, but in my opinion, this is a film I cant even bare to hear about, as soon as it's name is mentioned I am cowering in a ball struggling not to cry, the only reason I can write this now is because I'm listening to soothing music and trying to let people know that to some people it might not be as bad as everyone else is saying.The first few minutes I was watching it I just thought...this is a bit of a joke, but then it really did scare me. Jumpy things scare me pretty bad and this I found to be very jumpy. The blurs of the woman walking around scared me as I don't like things moving that quick and just...the idea of it being a video game, put me off even LOOKING at my video games for months. I thought about this film for months after watching it and had to take sleeping pills because I couldn't sleep because of the nightmares. I cant even bare to have the DVD in my house, I gave mine to a friend.Just wanted to let you know it's not really as bad as it sounds, and to some people, like me, it can actually be one of the scariest things you'll ever watch.